Comment by bcrosby95
2 days ago
Really? I've never turned my tap and and not had water come out. But we get several power outages per year.
2 days ago
Really? I've never turned my tap and and not had water come out. But we get several power outages per year.
Water infrastructure outages are typically due to failures needing repairs (relevant to this discussion: water main breaks which lead to boil water advisories). Few municipalities are fiscally responsible enough to invest in all the preventative maintenance required to completely avoid failures across all types of infrastructure (a low-priority budget item when things are working smoothly), but it also takes decades for water mains to fail.